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v2.6 in a nutshell

  • X-ray: see applied styles, margins, paddings, etc
  • Overriding: style any online/dynamic web site

 

  • Selector Builder: selectors made easy
  • Tabs: the coolest tabs ever, now for you!

 

  • Browser Integration: have tons of fun with your favorite sites
  • …and MUCH more!

CSSEdit 2.6 (newest)

  • Completely ready for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
  • CSSEdit can now open style sheets using an extension that's not ".css"
  • Externally modified documents present an option to reload from disk
  • Inserting styles is more context sensitive, especially when working in source code
  • URLs can be dropped on the Dock icon to preview or extract
  • Preview menu has new text size commands
  • Fixed incorrect X-ray element matching
  • Fixed various crashes and freezes
  • Tons of other tweaks

CSSEdit 2.5.1+2.5.2

  • (2.5.2) Fixes a bug in 2.5.1 where the Validation and Milestones inspectors would not show any content. Everyone who has updated to 2.5.1 should install this update.
  • Added Safari to the User Agent string to improve behavior with browser-sniffing scripts
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging the editor mode picker from the toolbar
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a style name during filtering
  • Improved crash reporter

CSSEdit 2.5

  • Tabs!
    • Both Style sheets and Previews now have Tabs
    • Drag them around, re-order them, drag them off to new windows,… Ultimate flexibility!
  • Selector Builder
    • Lets you define selectors in a plain English interface
    • Removes the learning curve for CSS selectors
  • X-Ray
    • Brand new X-ray Inspector that shows applied styles for the selected element, works without configuration for any site!
    • Streamlined navigation bar to browse the DOM efficiently
    • Various improvements and fixes to X-ray
  • Visual Editing
    • Text Shadow editor!
    • Font Picker: easily choose your font from the installed list
    • Various fixes and improvements
  • Source Editing
    • CodeSense now completes selectors as well as properties and values
    • Corrected problems with Japanese, Chinese,… input
  • Preview
    • Brand new Navigation bar with loading indicator and back/forward
    • Previewing now only detects changes in the HTML if it doesn't cause locking/writing issues. This resolves the issue where HTML editors like Dreamweaver and BBEdit are unable to save a previewed HTML file.
  • LOTS of other fixes and improvements!

CSSEdit 2.0.2

  • Validation has been updated to work with the new W3C validator
  • Apply To works for HTML documents with any file extension
  • Fixed rare crash with unrecognized @keywords
  • Fixed an issue with unrecognized properties

CSSEdit 2.0.1

  • Preview now handles all HTTPS pages, even with "insecure" certificates
  • Completing colons and semi-colons now respects spacing preferences
  • Improved color fidelity of generated hex RGB values
  • Fixed a problem that didn't allow opening brackets in Spanish ISO keyboard layout
  • Reworded "Allow more than one open section" in preferences

CSSEdit 2.0

  • Previewing and Debugging
    • Any site can be styled and previewed: blogs, dynamic Web Apps, Content Management Systems, anything — regardless of the backend technology (PHP, Ruby on Rails,…). Local HTML files of course work great as always
    • Override functionality lets you edit online style sheets and preview changes in real time, without reloading or attacking your server
    • X-ray shows margins, padding and positioning for selected elements
    • Style Sheets button shows all used style sheets and lets you edit them
    • Previewed HTML files automatically refresh when the file is saved
    • Much friendlier Preview management list
  • Validation
    • Handy inspector window validates your CSS with the W3C
    • Click on problems to go to the exact spot in your source code
  • Milestones
    • Save a copy of your style sheet while you're writing it and never lose work while debugging
    • Revert to a previous Milestone easily, fully Undo aware
    • Annotate saved Milestones to keep track of your progress
  • Browser Integration
    • Comes with a collection of bookmarklets (actions you can add to your browser's bookmarks bar) to tap into CSSEdit's functionality
    • Extract, preview and edit any site's style sheets with one click in your browser (works with everything: Safari, Firefox, Camino,…)
  • Extract From Site
    • More accurate and reliable extraction of style sheets
    • Improved and more focused interface
  • Source Editing
    • Source and Visual editors can now be open at the same time!
    • Un/Comment to quickly disable/enable parts of your code
    • CodeSense completion can now be explicitly requested by pressing escape or option-escape
    • More powerful and customizable Re-Indent options
    • Line numbers and marking of the current line (optional)
    • Several improvements to indentation and spacing preservation
  • Visual Editing
    • Editor groups can be collapsed/expanded independently, allowing you to open more than one at the same time
    • Units can now be selected by typing in their corresponding fields
    • More intuitive editors for a range of properties
    • Improved generation of shorthand property values
  • Rewritten Core
    • Speed! The new engine can handle huuuuuge style sheets
    • Streamlined group syntax and improved handling of nested groups
    • Robust Undo and Redo handling and increased stability

CSSEdit 1.7.1-1.7.2

  • CSSEdit now works natively on Intel based Macs!
  • Fixed a problem related to group parsing
  • Improved reliability when dragging around styles
  • Resolved an issue where comments wouldn't be visible

CSSEdit 1.7

  • Live FTP Editing support (ODB Editor Suite)
  • Brand new (re)formatting options
  • Much improved Live Page Preview
  • Style list speed improvements and bug fixes
  • Better detection of outside changes
  • Improved style sheet extraction
  • Many small bug fixes and cleanups

CSSEdit 1.6.3a

  • Fixed Undo issue on Jaguar
  • Fixed non-updating Extended Preview on Jaguar
  • Fixed inability to select "Smaller" in the font size popup

CSSEdit 1.6.3

  • Revamped Extended Preview engine for better reliability
  • Added Apple Help files
  • Window size and position, editing mode and last used pane are remembered for each individual document and restored when opening it again
  • Added export option that removes groups but keeps comments
  • Border switcher buttons have 'dirty bullets' when there are filled in properties
  • Fixed some issues with the Apply to HTML command
  • Fixed incorrect relative paths when dropping an image
  • Fixed problems displaying rgb() values
  • Improved Revert to Saved behavior
  • Improved manual typing of colors in the visual editors
  • Registered copies no longer display the "Buy Now" menu item
  • Several optimizations and cleanups

CSSEdit 1.6.2

  • Removed erroneous April 1 expiration date
  • Improved font shorthand handling
  • Fixed improper updating when deleting an item
  • Improved CSS extraction
  • Fixed greyed-out Extended Preview popup
  • Fixed invisible Preview icon in toolbar customization

CSSEdit 1.6.1

  • Fixed crash on launch on Jaguar installs
  • Editing mode is remembered and used when opening new documents
  • Key commands for Extended Preview and Reload (command-option-P and command-R)

CSSEdit 1.6

  • Source Editing
    • Big optimizations in source editing
    • Find and Replace
    • Go to Line (Command-L)
    • Improved auto-completion logic
    • Command-arrows in source mode move cursor to begin/end of line (as they should)
  • Visual Editing
    • All value fields allow arrow up/down to increment/decrement their value (Shift-arrows makes jumps of 10)
    • Font favorites menu uses the defined fonts on Panther
  • Previewing
    • Extended Preview refresh is much faster due to better caching
    • Added a Reload button for the Extended Preview
  • CSS Extraction
    • Completely redone extraction engine for much better performance and responsiveness
    • Cancel button in the Extraction sheet
    • Option to make groups for different sources of CSS
  • General
    • Heavily improved encoding handling (any document should open now, no matter how messed up it is)
    • Duplicate command (Command-D)
    • Options to open last used documents on startup
    • Huge Undo optimizations - much faster
    • Outline selection gradient now uses the system selection color
    • Preference to disable creating of shorthands by the visual editors
  • Bug Fixes
    • Much improved source-visual interaction, fixing various bugs
    • Fixed hang that occurred when making font families
    • Fixed crash when deleting everything between brackets
    • Fixed bug in Panther where the auto-completion window stayed visible
    • Fixed jumping scroll position in source mode with groups present
    • Fixed bug causing writing values to the wrong property
    • Deleting size/family from font shorthand now expands the rest
    • Improved background shorthand handling
    • Built in check to see if WebKit is present
    • Fixed bugs where autocompletion wouldn't work (mainly if there was no space after a colon)
    • When editing background position Y, X defaults to 0
    • Fixed insertion of a space when pasting something after a dot of for example a class selector
    • Fixed background image paths being converted to lowercase
    • Fixed a bug where the font family from a shorthand would be wrong
    • Fixed problem with quoted fonts in font shorthand
    • Improved filtering reliability
    • Many other fixes (if you reported a bug, it should be fixed!)

CSSEdit 1.5

  • Source Editing
    • Full blown source editor
    • Customizable syntax coloring
    • Intelligent auto-completion (keeps track of most used items)
    • Auto-indentation
    • Bracket selection
  • Visual Editing
    • Customizable, compact panes switcher
    • Brand new border editor
    • Fields send their value while typing, pressing return to confirm no longer needed
    • Image fields insert the relative path to a dropped image file
    • Major cleanup of the controls
  • Previewing
    • Extended Preview - see css changes in your web pages without saving!
    • Instant Preview drawer for a quick idea about how the style looks
    • Preview in Browser
  • Styles list
    • Filtering field to quickly find the style you're looking for
    • Multi-level groups are now supported
    • Big improvements to style preview in list
    • Scrolling is silky smooth now
    • Selecting styles in the list is up to 2 times as fast
    • Preference to improve readablity of light text or dark backgrounds
  • Much more robust CSS engine
  • Loads of bug fixes, little additions and more all over the application

CSSEdit 1.0.1

  • Solved crashes on Jaguar versions below 10.2.5
  • Improved CSSEdit's handling of invalid css code, so it doesn't prevent a document from opening
  • Added new properties vertical-align and display
  • Much improved launch time
  • Window size is saved

CSSEdit 1.0

  • Initial release

Universal Mac Application Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Demo restricts saving to files with less than 2500 characters.

Caution

May cause extremely attractive websites and bouts of validating code. Use with care.